THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER UPDATED & REVISEDThe twentieth century War & Peace a broad portrait of an age & a searing vision of Stalinist Russia Life & Fate is also the story of a family the Shaposhnikovs whose lives in the army the gulag a physics institute a power station & a concentration camp are stunningly evoked from their darkest to their most poetic moments Judged so dangerous by the Soviet authorities that the manuscript was immediately confiscated when completed in 1960 Grossman's masterpiece was finally smuggled into the West & published in 1980 The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship & suppression to influence decades of thought & artistic expression